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Robert A. May — 55 Patents

FOFortinet: 33 patents #5 of 528Top 1%
STSymbol Technologies: 6 patents #199 of 1,181Top 20%
IIIp Infusion: 2 patents #1 of 7Top 15%
TCTime Warner Entertainment Company: 2 patents #27 of 76Top 40%
Microsoft: 2 patents #17,644 of 40,388Top 45%
JAJefferson Science Associates: 1 patents #56 of 151Top 40%
Burnaby, CA: #6 of 1,166 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #45,454 of 4,157,543Top 2%
55 Patents All Time
Robert A. May has been granted 55 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fortinet. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in November 2025. Robert A. May ranks #45,454 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Robert A. May in Burnaby, BC, CA.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 55 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12481108 Faraday rotator interconnect as a through-via configuration in a patch architecture Brandon C. Marin, Divya Pratap, Hisato Tanaka, Nitin A. Deshpande, Omkar G. Karhade +5 more 2025-11-25
12456705 First layer interconnect first on carrier approach for EMIB patch Changhua Liu, Xia Guo, Aleksandar Aleksov, Steve Cho, Leonel Arana +1 more 2025-10-28
12432123 Systems and methods for automated incident management 2025-09-30
12149540 Systems and methods for identifying security requirements in a ZTNA system 2024-11-19 $653,800,000
12101231 Systems and methods for automated incident management 2024-09-24 $541,891,000
12081400 Systems and methods for SD-WAN setup automation 2024-09-03 $110,475,000
12069187 Systems and methods for posture checking across local network zone ZTNA control 2024-08-20 $176,588,000
12034769 Systems and methods for scalable zero trust security processing Wenping Luo, Kunal Marwah 2024-07-09 $401,888,000
11909826 Systems and methods for four dimensional network session authorization 2024-02-20 $143,269,000
11770403 Determination of a security rating of a network element Tarlok Birdi 2023-09-26 $214,257,000
11475790 Gamified network security training using dedicated virtual environments simulating a deployed network topology of network security products Jordan E. Thompson, Jamie Pate 2022-10-18 $100,034,000
11477240 Remote monitoring of a security operations center (SOC) Jordan E. Thompson 2022-10-18 $100,034,000
11425158 Determination of a security rating of a network element Tarlok Birdi 2022-08-23 $388,610,000
11412016 Gamified virtual conference with network security training of network security products Jordan E. Thompson, Jamie Pate 2022-08-09 $398,897,000
11019029 Building a cooperative security fabric of hierarchically interconnected network security devices Michael Xie, Xiaodong Xu, Yong Wang, Jordan E. Thompson, Shenghe Wang 2021-05-25 $276,248,000
10841341 Policy-based configuration of internet protocol security for a virtual private network 2020-11-17 $62,893,000
10841279 Learning network topology and monitoring compliance with security goals Michael Xie, Ling Clarke 2020-11-17 $62,893,000
10798061 Automated learning of externally defined network assets by a network security device Mathieu Nantel 2020-10-06 $65,005,000
10791146 Network security framework based scoring metric generation and sharing Michael Xie 2020-09-29 $193,020,000
10686839 Building a cooperative security fabric of hierarchically interconnected network security devices Michael Xie, Xiadong Xu, Yong Wang, Jordan E. Thompson, Shenghe Wang 2020-06-16 $204,978,000
10594708 Providing security in a communication network 2020-03-17 $37,509,000
10448244 Deployment and configuration of access points 2019-10-15 $48,845,000
10129341 Automated configuration of endpoint security management Michael Xie, Jinhai Yang, Kunal Marwah 2018-11-13 $27,790,000
9985994 Enforcing compliance with a policy on a client Wei Wang, Tao Huang 2018-05-29 $8,724,000
9948662 Providing security in a communication network 2018-04-17 $9,438,000